William Blair, a global boutique with expertise in investment banking, investment management, and private wealth management, has appointed Jim Conniff as a managing director in the firm’s investment banking group.

The hospital is being advised by the law firm of Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, led by attorneys Debra Grassgreen, Maxim Litvak and Steven Golden. The cases were filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division. Judge M. Elaine Hammond is the presiding judge.

Jackman announced today two new diligence offerings designed to help Private Equity partners quickly evaluate the full potential of a target asset along with possible future paths, and inform investment thesis development and deal valuation.

CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) today announced that its Capital Equipment Finance business has hired three new business development leaders to support clients and growth in the equipment finance market. Thomas Linebarger, Scott Ryan and Erick Berreondo have joined CIT’s Capital Equipment Finance (CEF) group as business development directors. Linebarger’s territory covers the Great Lakes region, Ryan is responsible for the Northeast and Berreondo will join the indirect originations sales channel.

The new $155 million facility will mature in December 2024 and includes $125 million committed availability for letters of credit and another $25 million uncommitted on a cash collateralized basis. Proceeds from this ABL will be the same as the prior facility: issuance of letters of credit, working capital, and incremental liquidity needs. Citibank serves as administrative agent and collateral agent on the refinance and BMO and Eclipse serve as co-collateral agents.

LiquidX, the global fintech solutions provider for working capital, trade finance, and insurance, today announced the launch of automated digital distribution technology for trade finance assets. With this launch, banks and asset managers now have a fully digital solution for programmatic, automated origination and distribution of trade finance assets, allowing them to scale, improve returns, and generate costs savings for their trade finance businesses.

The Second Incremental Term Loan and increased Revolver were provided by a syndicate of lenders with Bank of America, N.A. acting as Administrative Agent. BofA Securities, Inc., Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and The Bank of Nova Scotia acted as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners (with BofA Securities, Inc. as “left side” Joint Lead Arranger). All dollar amounts are denominated in U.S. dollars.

SVB Financial Group (“SVB”) (NASDAQ: SIVB), the parent of Silicon Valley Bank, today announced the continued growth of the Tech Investment Banking team with additional hires in the Internet, Consumer / Marketing Software, Fintech, and Enterprise Software sectors along with the formal launch of Technology Leveraged Finance and Equity Capital Markets capabilities. The new hires include experts in Leveraged Finance & Debt Capital Markets with Spencer Alstodt; Internet, eCommerce and Consumer Software with Matt Lytle; Fintech with Henry Pinnell; Software with Raymond Wu; and Equity Capital Markets with Matthew Walsh and Jesse Chasse.

ZRG Partners, a rapidly growing global talent advisory firm, today announced their acquisition of Brimstone Consulting Group, LLC. a boutique strategy consulting firm. Based out of Camden, ME, Brimstone Consulting is a specialist consulting firm who partners with their clients in building a strategy blueprint for rapid CEO success after leadership transitions.

Tradecycle Capital, an Indianapolis-based trade finance provider, announced it funded three new revolving accounts payable funding facilities in November. The first, is a $2,000,000 limit to a private equity owned specialty merchandising company who needed additional support for sourcing product offshore. The second, a $500,000 limit is for a precision welder and fabricator of exotic metals, which was referred to Tradecycle by their senior lender.

Eclipse Business Capital LLC (“EBC”), formerly known as Encina Business Credit, announced today that it has provided a $45 million senior secured revolving credit facility to a coal mining company based in the U.S. and Canada.

BRP Group, Inc. today announced that its subsidiary Baldwin Risk Partners, LLC is seeking to enter into an incremental term loan facility amendment to its existing credit agreement pursuant to which BRP LLC is expected to borrow $250 million of new term B loans under the Credit Agreement, which would increase the aggregate principal amount of its existing senior secured first lien term loan facility maturing in 2027 from $500 million to $750 million.

Finitive, the leading data-driven private credit marketplace connecting borrowers with institutional investors, today announced it has hired fintech veterans Steve Yampolsky as Head of Engineering and Chris Benjamin as Principal Software Architect to drive growth and further the company's mission to make private credit transactions fast, accessible, and easy.

Harris Williams, a global investment bank specializing in M&A advisory services, announces it advised American Track, a portfolio company of Hilltop Private Capital (Hilltop) and PNC Mezzanine Capital (PNC MC), on its recapitalization with DFW Capital Partners (DFW). American Track is a leading provider of inspection, maintenance, repair and specialized construction services for industrial railroad infrastructure in the United States.

Leslie A. Berkoff, a Partner and Chair of the Dispute Resolution practice group in the Garden City office of Moritt Hock & Hamroff, has been appointed by the American Bar Association to serve as Chair of the Dispute Resolution Committee of the Business Law Section.

KTC was contacted by a large US bank who was putting together a supply chain receivable finance facility for a Plastic Cup supplier in support of their growing sales to a Fortune 500 customer.

TeraWulf Inc. ("TeraWulf"), which was formed to own and operate fully integrated environmentally clean bitcoin mining facilities in the United States, today announced that it has raised approximately $200 million in debt and equity financing from a group of leading institutional and individual investors. TeraWulf noted that the additional capital raised is expected to enable it to achieve 6 exahash per second, or 200 megawatts, of mining capacity by the second half of 2022.

WeWork Inc. (NYSE: WE) (“WeWork”), one of the leading global flexible space providers, today provided a business update of key operational metrics for November 2021 and announced agreements to extend its secured credit commitments, which resulted in an extension of $1.75 billion of total liquidity from February 2023 to February 2024:

The Sustainability-Linked 5-Year, $525 million Revolving Credit Facility includes terms that reduce or increase the borrowing costs as targets on CO2 emissions avoidance levels and equal opportunities for women – including representation in management positions – are met or missed.

United Gaming LLC announced today that it has recently entered an amendment to upsize its current senior secured $250 million multi-draw facility to $650M in a syndicated transaction with a New York-based investment group acting as the lead agent. United Gaming was assisted in the negotiations and arrangement of the upsizing of the Credit Facility by its exclusive financial advisor, Imperial Capital, LLC, and was represented by the law firm of Paul Hastings LLP.